I wonder why my reply went to the user and not to the list... anyways sorry to send it to uy directly
but u can use java.util.LinkedHashMap as shown below Regards Amit -----Original Message----- From: Amit Ghaste [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Hashtable / HashMap Problem. internally the hashtable stores object refrences according to hashcodes, if u get an enumeration of the stored values or keys, the order is not predictible its the same result with a iterator.... since hashmap is similar to hashtable (except that its meathods are not synched) it will give u the same result to preserve order use the LinkedHashMap... this preserves the order when u retrive it thro the keyset iterator but its meathods are not synchronized... so if u are doing multi threaded operation on shared data u need to synch it get more info from the api if that helps Amit -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lakshmeenarayana G G Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 8:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hashtable / HashMap Problem. Hi, I am using Hashtable or HashMap to keep Key-Value pair of elements. But When I add them, The Hashtable or HashMap gets sorted depending on the keys. I want to retain the order in which I have added the key-value pair. Is there anyway to do it with Hashtable or HashMap ? Or Can I use any other Collection type which will have the mapping of key-value which is not sorted other than two dimensional Array. Thanks for the time. Lakshmeenarayana G G CLI Division - SysArris Software Bangalore - India Tel. No. +91-80-665 4965, 665 5052, 664 2690 Xtn-240 Fax No. +91-80-665 0374, 655 4285 http://www.sysarris.com/ =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com